Vice-Chancellor’s Matariki address
We remember. We celebrate. We plan.
Because education is a process, development, a journey, many of us at AG飞禽走兽电子, indigenous or otherwise, turn to metaphors of travel, of voyaging and navigation. They are fitting, apt. They are particularly fitting in this moment, as we acknowledge the waters we have traversed this past year.
For the AG飞禽走兽电子 vessel is well in the water: the vaka, va’a, waka is underway. We are navigating our course, and together we are voyaging well.
In an address to AG飞禽走兽电子 staff as part of the university’s Matariki celebrations, Vice-Chancellor Professor Damon Salesa outlined the course AG飞禽走兽电子 is navigating and waters it has traversed the past year.
From placing the first of the university’s big stars in the sky with Te Aronui, AG飞禽走兽电子’s response to Te Tiriti, to the recent launch of its new strategy, Te Kete, Professor Salesa said Matariki was the time to celebrate the collective impact AG飞禽走兽电子 has had both within the university itself and across Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa and beyond.